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Why hardware ebook readers are a dead end (for now, anyway)

March 5, 2008 12:39am

Meh. Probably accurate. I'm a bookophile, and even though my hard drive's littered with .txts and .pdfs, I generally just pick up a physical copy of a given book. It's the size, the orientation, and the fact that I don't have to swap batteries or worry about plugging a book in every N hours. Even with that, I might get an ebook reader if they weren't DRM and/or proprietary-format laden. My PalmIIc with a straight text-to-Palm-readable-format converter was the closest I've found to what I want, but sadly, it crapped out on me years ago.

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